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Plugins:

• Endwise

This is a simple plugin that helps to end certain structures automatically. In Ruby, this means adding "end" after "if", "do", "def" and several other keywords.

• AutoClose

This plugin was born as a personal need to have some little special features from other editors into my preferred one. The Eclipse IDE editor has an auto-complete for open-close pair of characters feature that I always wanted into Vim.

• L9

l9 is a Vim-script library, which provides some utility functions and commands for programming in Vim.

• Matchit

The matchit.vim script allows you to configure % to match more than just single characters. You can match words and even regular expressions. Also, matching treats strings and comments (as recognized by the syntax highlighting mechanism) intelligently.

• Ragtag

This plugin started out as a set of personal mappings, but there was enough enjoyment among those I shared it with for me to clean it up and release it.

• Comments

Plugin to comment and un-comment lines in different source files in both normal and visual mode

• Surround

Surround.vim is all about "surroundings": parentheses, brackets, quotes, XML tags, and more. The plugin provides mappings to easily delete, change and add such surroundings in pairs.

• Bufexplorer

With bufexplorer, you can quickly and easily switch between buffers.

• Grep

The grep plugin integrates the grep, fgrep, egrep, and agrep tools with Vim and allows you to search for a pattern in one or more files and jump to them.

• Syntastic

If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them.

• SnipMate

A snippet is a piece of often-typed text that you can insert into your document using a trigger word followed by a Tab.

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Navigations:

• Command-T

The Command-T plug-in provides an extremely fast, intuitive mechanism for opening files with a minimal number of keystrokes. It's named "Command-T" because it is inspired by the "Go to File" window bound to Command-T in TextMate.(For those who has upgraded ubuntu to version 13.04 and got problems with his favorite text editor.)

• FuzzyFinder

Fast opening files

• Ctrlp

Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, ... finder with regexp support.

• Nerdtree

The NERD tree : A tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem

• vim-rails

Easy file navigation, enhanced syntax highlighting, and more.

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Syntax highlight:

• Vim-Slim
• Haml
• vim-javascript
• Cucumber
• Markdown
• Textile
• Less
• Coffee-script

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Fast keys:

• Bufexplorer > Ctrl + b
• Comments > comment Ctrl + c, uncomment Ctrl + x
• Grep > Ctrl + f
• Command-T > Alt + Shift + i
• Fuzzyfinder > Alt + Shift + o
• Ctrlp > Ctrl + p
• Nerdtree > F2, more functions Shift + s m
• vim-rails > Go to view gv, model gm, helper gh, controller gc, stylesheets gs, javascript gj
• SnipMate > Snip name + Tab
• Save file > Ctrl + s
• Select all > Ctrl + a
• Clearing highlighted search > press Esc
• Tabs > New tab tt, next tab Ctrl + Tab, previous tab Shift + Tab, close tab Ctrl + q
• Move line > up Alt + up, down Alt + down
• Sort css style > press F3
• Saving a session is simple > press F6. To open Vim with a saved session, call it with -S option. Enter in terminal: $ gvim -S last.vim

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When you need to make changes to a system file, you can override the read-only permissions by typing :w!!, vim will ask for your sudo password and save your changes.

Time traveling in vim

For example :earlier 35s will go back 35 seconds in time. If you over shot your destination, you can move forward in time with :later 12s.

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